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"There's no right way to journal, you just have to find the right words."📝

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A while ago we read and reviewed All About Love by bell hooks and I never posted about it here. 🤦🏽‍♀️ But with it being Black History Month as well as the month of love I figured there’s no time like the present!

All About Love is the perfect book to make you question how you love and how you’re being loved. It’s also the perfect book to share with a loved one!

Have you read All About Love? Check our video out to hear our thoughts and join the discussion! Link in bio!

#KnockingTheBooks #NonFiction #BlackBookRecs #AllAboutLove #bellhooks

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Most people know me for comedy… but not everyone knows where I come from.

Today I started a 30-Day Writing Challenge created by @findingtherightwords_ , and my first entry is called “Matilda in the Hood.”

I’ll be posting a new piece every day, and if you want to read along or learn a little more about the parts of me I don’t always post on IG…

👉🏾 Visit my Substack and hit subscribe.
I’m building something real over there. Essays, poetry, stories, all of it.

This is a new chapter for me, and I’d love for you to follow it from the beginning.
(Link in bio)

✨ “Matilda in the Hood” is live now.
Meet me on Substack.

#DeusXXMachina #SubstackWriters #WritingChallenge #30DayWritingChallenge #MatildaInTheHood #ClarissaRicks #CreativeJourney #BlackWriters #Storytelling #HoodRaised #LibraryKids #HooverSt #slausonswapmeet #figueroastreet

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I Just wrapped up a podcast interview. Thank you Jolie for holding space ✨. I definitely learned a few things:
🎙️ Being interviewed is way more comfortable than talking to the camera solo
✨ I have a powerful story to tell — and it deserves to be heard
🌿 Energy work has saved me, shifted me, and shaped me… over and over again. This journey is still unfolding, and I’m so grateful.

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from the journal of Jolie A. Doggett:

"Finding the right word to describe my 34th birthday and I've settled on LOVE.

I typically choose to spend my birthdays alone, as a time for self reflection and future planning but also as an excuse to not be disappointed in case no one wants to celebrate with me. If I'm already alone I can't be lonely, right?

I've spent my whole life trying to prove I can take care of myself by myself. For a good chunk of my life, that was my only option. But this June 23rd, 2025 (and honestly this whole year leading up to my birthday), my friends would not leave me alone. And I am so happy and grateful.

Today has been full of reminders of how loved I am by my community of family and friends and even strangers on the internet. My heart is so full.

It's a weird time to start a new year of life, a lot is going on in the world right now. But I'm full of hope in the midst of it all that as long as we're taking care of each other, loving each other, showing up, maybe things will be okay. Maybe none of us will have to be alone." -6/23/2025

Finally have a moment to myself to say THANK YOU to everyone who wished me a happy birthday today, thank you to everyone who celebrated with me today and over the weekend. Thank you for showing up and showing out and showing me care and love

Happy Birthday to me. 🎂❤️
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#birthdaygirl #birthdaycake #happybirthday #birthday #journal #journaling #journalinspiration #love

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What did ya’ll think of the cover for Kennedy Ryan’s This Could Be Us?

Wanna hear the rest of our thoughts on the second book in the Skyland Series? Head to YouTube to watch episode 5 of Knocking the Books 📚💋

#KnockingTheBooks #BookTube #KennedyRyan #Skyland #ThisCouldBeUs #RomanceReads #BookClub

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Loving this series- Jolie Journaling is a must see! Shout out to @findingtherightwords_ for creating a space for journaling experience.
#unbreakablevoices
#journaling
#coffee
#conversations

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“I am someone who's always known what I wanted to be when I grew up. Little Jolie had BIG dreams, with her overachieving ass. Life has always been go, go, go, move, move, move, climb, climb, climb for as long as I can remember. But lately, life seems to be moving a little slower. Sometimes, life feels like it’s moving too slow and I should be doing more.

But I just want my little self to know I’m not giving up. Even when my vision of the future seems cloudy, I rest in the certainty that I will never stop dreaming, I will never stop trying. Clouds have always been my favorite anyway. In fact, I was born on a cloudy day! Clouds let me know something is coming, that things will eventually clear and brighter days will come through. The cloudy days of life don’t fill me with gloom. They fill me with hope for the possibilities. And I’m excited about those possibilities. ⛅️”

Today is my 33rd birthday! If you wanna give me a super cool gift, consider subscribing to my newsletter and podcast (@findingtherightwords_ linked🔗 in the bio). It’s free! but you’re welcome to upgrade if you feel called. Your support while I’m making little me’s dreams come true means so much. Kay bye! 🖤

📸: @nutella_24fit & @keeping.up.w.kris

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Hello? Is this thing on?

Did y’all know I have a podcast? Well I do! And you can listen to it on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. It’s called Finding The Right Words, and it’s all about journaling, inner exploration and self expression and finding the right words to express, empower, and explore our lives. I share personal stories and introspections and journal prompts!

A new season drops next week on Monday but you can listen to the backlist now at the 🔗link in my bio (the episodes are super short so you can binge them all in just a couple hours. SWIPE for a snippet). And do me a favor, if you like what you hear, please rate, review, or subscribe, it really helps. ⭐️

Okay bye! 🎙

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"I get in my head a lot and sometimes, in my head is not a great place to be. I can be pretty mean to myself in my inner dialogue.

When I’m being buried alive by my own negative self talk, I imagine someone trying to rescue me. I look to my friends and family to protect me with validation and words of affirmation. But no outside voice can silence the louder voices in my head. I have to learn to rescue myself."

Every Friday during the month of May, I’ll be sharing journal entries under the theme “DEAR ME: Notes to Self” where I’ll be writing letters to myself of love, encouragement, advice, and hope for the future. Filling my journal with notes to myself. Writing to myself as someone outside of myself who could see my life with compassion, honesty, and kindness.

I hope you join me. Link in bio. 🌸

📸: me at dinner under the glow of romantic candlelight, feeling/being awkward 🙃
#FTRW #FindingTheRightsWords #journal #writing #substack #notetoself
@findingtherightwords_

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"There are so many definitions of love, so many descriptions of what it is, how it feels, what it looks like. There’s not a lot of guidance on… well, what it does. How do you show it? How do you live it? When love is in your life, how does it change you? Let's figure it out together." 📝

It's a new month which means it's time for a new writing challenge and this month, I'm thinking and writing about love. Subscribe to my newsletter (link in bio) to follow along on the journaling journey.

Also there are (about) 3 DAYS LEFT to register for my 6-week writing workshop Finding the Right Words about LOVE 💜. If you're looking to create a journaling ritual or you wanna dive deeper into the concept of love, check out my newsletter or head over to @hpsacredtext to register.

I love y'all, forreal.
@findingtherightwords_

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ICYMI, I did an Instagram takeover over at @hpsacredtext and did some live collaging/junk journaling under the theme of "EASE." It was such a fun day, you can check it out in my highlights.

If you're interest in trying out new and unique ways to start a journaling practice or you're looking for a community to write with, consider signing up for my writing workshop: Finding the Right Words about LOVE 💜 at notsorryworks.com and check out my journaling newsletter and podcast (link in bio) 📝
#Journal #Journaling #Writing #FindingtheRightWords #FTRW

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"I love Black women so much.

I love my Black mother, grandmothers, God-mother, and aunties. I love my cousins, sisters, coworkers and friends. I love the Black women I don’t even know and who don’t know me because Black women have always been the loves of my life. Friendship and care from Black women have enriched my life. The prayers and support of Black women have saved my life.

I know I am my sisters’ keeper." ❤️

Today, I wrote a thing about how much I love Black women, how much Black women have loved me back, and how we must celebrate the Black woman writer whose work to explores how deep love between Black women goes. Link is in bio.

Pictured: An old photo with a Black woman who I love (@taylorcespedes ) in the city of (brotherly) love to emphasize my point about love.
#FindingTheRightsWords #Journaling #BlackHistoryMonth #Love
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